Word: tinkers
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Peculiar Pattern. Tornado clouds are unpleasant subjects to study at close range, and so they are not completely understood. But practical information about them has accumulated. In 1948. Meteorologists Ernest J. Fawbush and Robert C. Miller were on duty at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, when a tornado swept across it. After the disaster they went over their data on conditions before the storm and found a "peculiar pattern." Five days later they came to their office, took a look at the day's charts and saw the same weather pattern. They did not dare use the dread...
Since the Air Force is not in the business of warning the general public, the Weather Bureau set up a "severe-weather warning center" in Washington in 1952 to develop the Tinker Field system. Moved to Kansas City in 1954, it now issues warnings two to four hours in advance, spotting about 70% of the tornadoes within 150 miles of the warning area...
This year two sferics-detecting networks are operating experimentally out of Tinker Field and Kansas City. They have radars that watch for squall lines, which average 150 miles long, each containing 15 to 20 thunderstorms. As the line advances, the sferics detectors sweep from storm to storm, measuring the frequency of its radio waves. In a violent squall line, two or three of the storms may be of the type that can produce tornadoes...
...Heyward Isham, 64, retired businessman, collector of rare manuscripts, including the Boswell papers, which were acclaimed by scholars as the greatest literary find of the century; after long illness; in Manhattan. In 1927, two years after the supposedly destroyed Boswell papers had been found by Yale's Professor Chauncey Tinker at Malahide Castle in Ireland, Isham bought his first lot of the papers, found and bought five other lots in the next 23 years, sold the entire collection to Yale...
British Champion Stirling Moss, driving a Mercedes-Benz, stopped to tinker with his fuel pump, was promptly grabbed by a couple of athletic male nurses, shoved onto a stretcher and carted off to an ambulance. "I'm O.K.," Moss protested. "Be quiet, boy," said his Spanish-speaking nurses, who could not understand him. Moss got a quick cooling-off with ice packs before he finally escaped back...